Sometimes you meet someone and instantly know you want to be friends. Emily is one of those people. I asked her to blog about her experience at the Girls' Forum last month. Hopefully you'll get to meet her next year—February 24-25, 2012.
Sexting….do my girls do that? Is this happening and I am oblivious to it? Well, three days ago, two of the girls at the school where I teach told me about a “texting” conversation they had with some boys…..AAHHH….Now that I am aware of what sexting is, I realized that my girls have done this. They don’t even know what they were really doing!
Thanks to the Lifeway Girls’ Ministry Forum, I am now educated in this area that is so subtle, so sneaky, so tempting to every young lady that owns a phone. My job now encompasses telling my girls and educating them about sexting. After all, God says to him who has been given much, much is required. (Luke 12:48)
I wonder at this moment if ignorance and bliss would be better, but then I am reminded that God chose me to love these girls at this time; He chose me to go to the Lifeway Girls’ Ministry Forum and become educated in the many ways our girls are being bombarded with Satan’s lies; He chose me to speak the truth in love. What a privilege to be under Jesus’ lordship and to be chosen for such a time as this!
Emily Kacyvenski is mother to Margaret-Jane; sister to three fabulous and protective brothers and one loyal sister who is her hero; and daughter to a warm and continuing-to-grow father. She teaches sixth-eighth grade English and literature at Bracken Christian School in Bulverde, Texas.
We too have come to realize the urgency of addressing the issue of 'sexting' with teens. We have found that they start inappropriate conversations with the opposite sex as young as 5th and 6th grade, but it really begins to get serious somewhere between 7th and 9th grade. What starts out as an innocent flirtation seems to quickly begin to insinuate sexual references and then flourishes into downright indecent conversations before the participants even seem to realize what has happened. We have found that in many cases, the participants really want to stop it, but they are fearful of how the other person would react. ...besides, it makes them feel really good.
There is a great resource for schools and youth groups and families. The have both secular and faith-based forms. Check out "The Digital Demon" @ http://www.getrealinc.org/the-digital-demon/
It is a music video that both shows the effects of sexting - in this case a picture - and gives hope to those who are suffering the effects. Every school and youth group should have a copy of this!!!
Don't be deceived! The majority of teens, though they seem innocent, fall into this. We need to be communicating and equipping our teens with ways to stop things before they go too far.
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